Twelve Days of 21st Century Rain | by Lotte L.S.

Twelve Days of 21st Century Rain, a long poem by Lotte L.S., “gathers fractured perspectives in a persistent and persisting voice: forthright yet observant, not impervious to beauty, but keeping one eye to the deadening structures of capital and the state. The body at the centre of these perspectives is a little anonymous, a little fungible, enlivened by moments of sexuality and sensuousness that stretch beyond their immediate present. When she hypothesizes that “time is just perspective, and / perspective: time,” perspective emerges by turns as a situated limitation and a site of possibility. Annual and diurnal rhythms overlap, appear in fragments, feel disorienting or eternal; the speaker is suddenly in a narrative and just as suddenly outside it. And she is spoken through by other poets who might share those perspectives and experiences. “Imitating crown shyness,” her life is apart from others yet shaped by them exactly, inhabiting the spaces they have vacated or left behind.” - Chicago Review

20 pages, A6 | Designed, edited, typeset & printed by Lotte L.S. First printing September 2020.

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